Korean seafood, rice w/ vegetables freeze dried

[Bypah]

Well. the food is not bland on the contrary is tasty specially in Spain. You're right Europeans are not used to the "heat" like the Mexicans, Koreans or Hindus.
By the way many of those chilies they use came originally from the Americas, Mexico to be exactly.
I'm Hispanic and I like to taste the flavors of what I eat instead of burning myself with über hot spicy food.
I do like kimchi and some other spices but not to overwhelm my food.

[dirtbag]

I spent a week in Barcelona, Spain in...1974, I think.
The food was very bland, but they had just started displaying the white Gorilla, so not a total loss.
We did a few tours, a drunken wine tasting tour and one to a mountain top monastery, complete with a very scary cable car ride!
Plus the Dali-esq cathedral was neat.
We didn't know about the Tapas, so mostly cafes and small restaurants.

[chitoryu12]

I don't find most European cuisine bland (except maybe British, and they've gotten a taste for Indian in the past century). There's typically more subtleties than the popping and extreme flavors and often high heat of chili-heavy Asian cuisines. Herbs and spices are used, but in smaller amounts, and they didn't take to chili peppers as much as Asia. There's also less mingling of multiple flavors across one dish or an entire meal, unlike Thai cuisine. American food tends to be much heavier on sweetness, as is typified by the popularity of sweet barbecue sauce and very soft and delicate sliced white bread, to the point where foreigners used to their own local cuisines find our food unusually sweet.

"Bland" foods in Europe and Russia are more often going to be classic peasant dishes that remain popular today, like mashed tubers and salted meats.